There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
BEN HOROWITZThe important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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